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There are some felicitous phrases in "By Chance" ("If he listens, he can hear, 600 feet below, the thump and flurry of the sea"), but most of Corrick's prose is as colorless as poor Bolsover, who, upon going into hiding, is advised that "the point is to keep a low but respectable profile, and at all costs to avoid being interesting".
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On Day Two I clocked up a respectable activity profile but disaster struck when I attempted to sync the device.
By associating themselves with high-profile, respectable authors and illustrators, Emirates Airline are able to raise their own profile and make themselves appear more respectable.
As Ms. Benton describes them, high-functioning alcoholics are able to maintain respectable, even high-profile lives, usually with a home, family, job and friends.
And don't get me started on Johnny Mnemonic… Neuroscience: 3 – Rocket science: 3 Neuroscience: Although there are a number of high-profile, respectable neuroscientists out there, it's hard to think of one who's a household name.
But Flowers is clearly one of those dangerous people who wishes to place himself in a high-profile and respectable position precisely because he enjoys the decadent thrill of blatantly getting up to all sorts of things he shouldn't, while no one notices.
At the (equally respectable but not as high profile) institutions I teach at, especially during this economic climate, students question the purpose of college.
This explains the Daily Mail's older age profile - it is more respectable - and its success.
Yet, although college athletes devote more than 40-50 hours per week to sport-related activities, they are not ensured basic rights and protections, nor are high profile athletes graduating at a respectable rate.
(This summer, for instance, nearly every high-profile studio film has had a respectable début).
Feeling the need for a low profile, Wolff takes a "straight" job for a respectable company, run by John Lithgow, and finds some irregularities, which puts both him and Lithgow's smart employee Anna Kendrick in danger.
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